Within eight days in early 2026, two tracker suppliers announced multi-hundred-megawatt and multi-gigawatt awards tied to the Bisha solar complex in Saudi Arabia.
Nextpower Arabia announced 2.25 GWp on 27 January; GameChange Solar and L&T announced 1,290 MWp on 4 February. Read together, the two disclosures suggest a project large enough to be split across suppliers or phases.
Neither announcement describes the other one. That absence is the single most important fact for anyone writing about the project.
The question
What can be compared
Platform, capacity unit, announced counterparty and the date of each release can be set side by side. Features cited in the two releases, including hail and wind stow behaviour, are marketing descriptions rather than a shared test protocol.
What we compared
What cannot be concluded
We cannot confirm that the two awards are two packages of one tender, two phases, or two adjacent sites. Any statement that Bisha has a single total tracker capacity is unsupported, because the two figures use different unit conventions.
Why a one-project-many-vendors model is useful
Our project database stores supplier as a repeatable child record rather than a single field. That prevents later reports from silently adding incompatible capacity numbers together.
Data box
| Field | Value as reported |
|---|---|
| Announcement 1 | Nextpower Arabia, 27 January 2026, 2.25 GWp |
| Announcement 2 | GameChange Solar / L&T, 4 February 2026, 1,290 MWp |
| Elapsed time | 8 days |
| Shared project reference | Bisha, Asir Province |
| Relationship between awards | Not disclosed |
All figures above are quoted with the unit and reference period used by the primary source. They are reproduced here for reference, not independently re-measured.
Where this reading can be wrong: verification note
Both releases are silent on their relationship. We use 'appears to be' and 'likely' for any inference about split packages. GWp and MWp are not summed.
What to watch next
An ACWA Power or SPPC disclosure that defines the packages, phases and capacity basis for the complex.
Primary sources
- Nextpower IR press release, 2026-01-27
- GameChange Solar / L&T via PR Newswire, 2026-02-04
- ACWA Power / PIF programme project documentation
Researched and written by the solarrack.wiki editorial desk. Every figure in this article carries a source and a verification note; where a claim could not be confirmed against a primary document, it is labelled as such. Corrections: [email protected]
